[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is being filtered by firewall

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Fri Sep 21 20:12:23 UTC 2007


Armed Blowfish wrote:
> Are you trying to edit Wikipaedia or just read it?
>
> If you just want to read Wikipaedia, you could try Tor.
> Tor is an anonymising proxy network, and with each
> connection you get a series of three nodes.  While
> most of these nodes are published, and hence easily
> blockable by your school, there are special nodes
> called bridges which are not published which you can
> use as entry to the Tor network.  So, if your school is
> blocking the nodes in the Tor directory, you could
> configure Tor to use bridges.
It seems that you want to try the complicated technical solutions before 
the simple ones. 

Ec



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